When: Friday, Jan 10, 2025 (12:30-1:30PM)

Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)

1-on-1 meetings: 223 Raitt Hall (sign up here)

We are looking forward to hosting CSDE Affiliate Hilary Schwandt from Western Washington University on Friday, Jan. 10 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. In addition, there are opportunities to meet 1-1 with Dr. Schwandt throughout the day. Sign up here!

This talk is based on findings from six years of research, funded by two NSF REUs, on the family planning program in Rwanda with undergraduates from the USA and Rwanda. This presentation will focus especially on the findings and lessons learned each year – and how those informed each subsequent summer of data collection.

Geographic mobility has been associated with poorer outcomes across the HIV care cascade. On January 23rd, join CSDE Affiliate Khai Tram (UW Medical Center) for a presentation sponsored by the UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) that aims to put this issue into context. The presentation is focused on a study conducted in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa which investigates daily mobility of a cohort of young adults at high risk of HIV over a 6-month period.

Each quarter, CSDE offers 3-5 workshops on data sources, statistical and biomarker methodology, introductions to analysis programs, and more, all given by CSDE staff and faculty affiliates.

Winter Workshops

• Survey Methods I: Online Survey Design & Administration with REDCap

• • Date & Time: Thursdays Jan 23 and 30 @ 10:00AM–12:00PM

• Interpreting Biomarker Results

• • Date & Time: Thursday, Jan 30 @ 2:30PM-3:30PM

• The Northwest Federal Statistical Research Data Center: Enabling Access to Confidential, Unpublished Data from the Federal Statistical System

• • Date & Time: Tuesday, Feb 4 @ 12:30PM-1:30PM

• Introduction to Using Generative LLM for Social Science Research

• • Date & Time: Tuesday, February 11 @ 10:00AM–11:30PM

• Survey Methods II: Statistical Analysis of Surveys in R

• • Date & Time: Thursday, Feb 6 @ 10:00AM–12:00PM

We invite early career faculty affiliates to join our new mailing list, csde_earlycareer.  Among other things, this is the way to find out info about our quarterly Early Career Affiliate happy hours, and you won't want to miss those! These will be a great way to meet up with other junior scholars in a fun and casual atmosphere over snacks and drinks. Who counts as early career, you ask? Typically we mean folks who are pre-promotion (i.e. assistant professor or equivalent), but we're not strict! Please note - this is for faculty only - we are strict about that. Sorry, all others!

Secure your hotel reservation now for the Population Association of America (PAA) Conference from April 10-13, 2025 at the Washington, DC Marriott Marquis. Use the special links on the Hotel and Travel page to book at the discounted PAA rate. Registration will open soon!

The Workshop in Environmental Economics and/or Data Science (TWEEDS) recently announced their call for proposals. TWEEDS brings together scholars working on projects related to policy, economics, environmental sciences, and data science to discuss methodologies at the forefront of our fields. During the conference, workshop participants will hear from experts in data-science methods and tools—machine learning, remote sensing, natural language processing, cloud computing, geospatial data analysis—and applied environmental economics—including climate change, energy policy, environmental justice, transportation, and the interchange between air/water quality and health. Learn more and submit a proposal here.

The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) and Arnold Ventures recently announced a collaborative call for causal research on the criminal justice system. Criminal justice policies and practices include the work of the police, courts, jails, prisons, probation and parole, and immigration detention. Proposals must include causal research designs that can reliably isolate the treatment effects of a policy, practice, or intervention such as difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, and randomized controlled trials.

The UW Latino Center for Health recently announced their Small Grant Program, a $25,000 grant to fund research focused on Latinx health in Washington state. Applicants should include a partnership between a UW faculty investigator and a community-based organization that serves Latinx individuals, families, or communities.

Each grant award is up to $25,000 and does not include indirect costs. The deadline for submission is February 10, 2025. Funds will be awarded in May 2025 for up to a one-year project with a community partner.

The most recent issue of Population and Development Review is now published and is dedicated to “Contraceptive Transitions: Explanations and Evidence.” Access the full set of new articles here.

The UW eScience Institute is holding a Software Carpentry workshop January 13th–16th (9 AM – noon each day) via Zoom on software tools to automate research tasks, track research over time, and program in either Python or R to accelerate research and make it more reproducible. Learn more and register here.

The deadline to apply for the UW Open Scholarship Community Fellows program has been extended. This paid Fellowship over Winter and Spring quarters offers graduate students, underrepresented in the field of open scholarship, funding and mentorship to develop a workshop on an open scholarship topic of their choice. Learn more and apply here.

The eScience Institute’s Winter School offers the opportunity to gain literacy in topics such as Python, R, Jupyter, and reproducible environments. This is an in-person, 4-session series starting Thursday, February 6th. Learn more and apply here.

The University of Washington eScience Institute is partnering with Microsoft on the new UW Azure GenAI for Science Hub. Through this Hub we are offering cloud computing credits to UW researchers (faculty, postdocs, research staff) from all 3 UW campuses for projects where utilization of generative AI is central to accomplishing their research goals. Grants of up to $15,000 in Azure credits will enable access to AI Studio, Azure OpenAI Services, and GPUs as well as other standard Azure services.

The eScience Institute’s accelerator program is looking for projects from any field that would benefit from collaboration on data intensive and AI approaches, such as machine learning, scalable data management, statistical analysis, data visualization, open-source software development, and cloud and scalable computing.  To be considered for spring quarter, submit a proposal by February 6th. Learn more and sign up for an info session on January 23rd here.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Food Insight Group, and Chef Ann Foundation recently announced a Request for Research Proposals entitled “Understanding the School Food Workforce Subgrants.” The group is looking for research projects that will increase understanding of the current state of the K-12 school food workforce in the United States and/or explore strategies to create a stable and respected workforce that can provide healthy meals to students while supporting resilient local and regional food systems.

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is inviting applications from qualified and highly-motivated students for a Summer Research Visit. The goal of the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program is to enable discovery by bringing together data scientists and population scientists to work on focused, intensive and collaborative projects of broad societal relevance.

For a period of 3 months (June 2^nd – August 22^nd, 2025) participating students will work in small teams, with support from experienced mentors, towards a common research goal. For the summer of 2025, the focus of the program will be on three main research areas:

1)    “Climate Change and Mobility” mentored by Risto Conte Keivabu, Ebru Sanlitürk, and Monica Alexander (University of Toronto);

2)    “Machine Learning for Life Course Trajectories” mentored by Linda Vecgaile, Bruno Arpino (University of Padova) and Emilio Zagheni;

3)    “Mortality in War Settings” mentored by Yvette Young, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Enrique Acosta (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics -CED) and Irena Chen.

Learn more about this opportunity here. Applications are due by January 8th, 2025.

The Population Health Initiative recently announced the availability of Tier 2 Pilot Grants. The purpose of this tier of grants is to support faculty and PI-eligible staff to develop preliminary data or proof-of-concept needed to pursue follow-on funding to scale one’s efforts. Awards of up to $65,000 each will be available to interdisciplinary research teams. Letters of intent are due January 13, 2025. Learn more about the opportunity and previously funded projects here.

Applications for the Office of Global Affairs’ Global Innovation Fund are now open. This grant opportunity is intended to develop cross-college and cross-continent research collaborations, with award opportunities from $3,000 to $20,000 available to support fellowships, research projects, study abroad/away and teaching. Learn more about the various opportunities here. Applications are due January 31, 2025.

Abstract submissions are now open for the 2025 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The 2025 conference theme is Understanding Health and Population Dynamics through Big Microdata. We seek submissions that use full count census data to examine health and population dynamics. We are particularly interested in projects that link persons, families, or communities across censuses or link full count data to other sources, including the creation of place-based measures or person-level linkages to external data.

Empirical evidence shows that many migrants who are seemingly well “integrated” actually do not feel at home, report more discrimination and experience a weaker sense of belonging to their residence country than seemingly less integrated migrants. The literature on the integration paradox (IP) has expanded significantly in recent years, but it still falls short on longitudinal perspectives and empirical evidence on the underlying mechanisms and scope of countries and migrant groups studied. The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) recently announced a research workshop at Utrecht University (Netherlands) on this subject.

Call for papers: Gender & Society Special Issue — Feminist Metascience, Feminist Open Science? Pain Points and Possibilities, due by Feb 1st, 2025.

Guest Editors: Christin L. Munsch (University of Connecticut) and Daisy Verduzco Reyes (UC-Merced)

This special issue explores the relationship between feminism, metascience, and open science, seemingly disparate areas of inquiry of contemporary significance. This special issue will be a forum for feminist scholars to explore these relationships.

The NSF’s Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program reissued its call for proposals.  The call invites senior research proposals, early career development proposals, research coordination network proposals, conference and research community development activities, research experiences for undergraduates and graduates, and transdisciplinary research in environmental social science. The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, consequences, or evolution of the spatial dimensions of human behaviors, activities, and dynamics as well as their interactions with environmental and social processes across a range of scales. Contemporary geographical research encompasses diverse research traditions and methodologies. Recognizing the breadth of the field's contributions to science, the HEGS program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, methodologically rigorous, and generalizable research that advances geographical and geospatial sciences.

The Dissertation Research Grants program supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research that addresses questions relevant to any of RSF’s priority areas: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. Proposed projects must be closely aligned with the funding priorities listed on the RSF website, contribute to RSF's mission to improve social and living conditions in the U.S., and demonstrate appropriate use of relevant theory, innovative data, rigorous research methods, and measures. Applicants must be enrolled doctoral students at institutions of higher education in the U.S. or a U.S. territory, who have completed all program requirements except the dissertation. Some grants will be co-funded with The Policy Academies and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. The proposal deadline is February 4, 2025, for funding starting in September 2025. Learn more about the Dissertation Research Grants program here.

RSF staff will discuss the Dissertation Research Grants application process at a webinar on January 7, 2025, at 2PM ET. Register for the webinar here.

With a seemingly endless range of possible models to analyze longitudinal data, how do you select the best one? This seminar from Statistical Horizons (taught by Kenneth A. Bollen) will address that question, providing you with practical tools to evaluate and select the most suitable longitudinal model. Learn more and access sample course materials here.

The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) will accept letters of inquiry under the core programs for Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context and Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration. The foundation will also accept LOIs for the special initiatives Immigration and Immigrant Integration and Promoting Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility among Racially, Ethnically, and Economically Diverse Groups after the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities.

Statistics indicate that as of 2024, nearly eight percent of the U.S. population identifies as LGBT, with much of this growth attributed to increases in LGBT identification among younger generations. In recent years, policies and laws have been enacted in support of LGBTQI+ communities and their well-being. For example, the 21st Century Cures Act included provisions for the NIH Director to encourage efforts to improve research related to the health of sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations, including to increase participation of SGM populations in NIH-supported clinical research and to facilitate the development of methods for conducting SGM research. SGM people were designated as a population with health disparities for NIH research in 2016 by the Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities in consultation with the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The NIH SGM health research portfolio has steadily grown and diversified since 2015.

However, members of SGM communities still face unique and significant disparities and barriers across domains such as physical, mental, and behavioral health; social and structural determinants of health; and healthcare access and quality. This includes higher SGM group-specific rates of and risks for some chronic health conditions (e.g., arthritis, asthma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, certain forms of cancer, and HIV/AIDS), depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance use, smoking, stigma, discrimination, bullying, using preventive health services less frequently, and negative experiences in healthcare settings.

Population Research Planning Grants (PRPGs) are designed to provide in-kind support and/or funds of up to $25k* to support a wide array of activity types throughout the development of a research project. As part of our mission to complement rather than duplicate other campus opportunities such as the Population Health Initiative seed grants, we will consider funding things activities such as the use of CSDE services beyond the standard allotments for affiliates.

CSDE Matching Support includes in-kind or monetary support to accompany a submission to other on-campus funding mechanism, such as PHI, EarthLab, or Urban@UW. All projects must have a CSDE affiliate who is UW faculty and is listed as a PI or co-PI, with any number of other collaborators. Note that we require (PRPGs) or strongly suggest (matching funds) contacting either Development Core Director (Steven Goodreau) or CSDE Director (Sara Curran) to discuss possibilities for your specific proposal before submission.

As of 5/20/2024, NSF proposals that may impact the resources or interests of a federally recognized Tribal Nation will not be awarded by NSF without prior written approval from the official(s) designated by the relevant Tribal Nation(s).

Proposers must:

• Seek guidance from the potentially impacted Tribal Nation on activities that require review and prior approval from that Tribal Nation’s authorized designee.
• Submit a written request to the relevant Tribal Nation (based on their guidance), for approval to carry out the proposed activity that requires their review and approval.
• Complete the checkbox for “Potential Impacts on Tribal Nations” on the Cover Sheet. Note, lead organizations are responsible for this on collaborative proposals & proposals with subawards considered a single unified project.
• Upload one of the following into "Other supplementary documents" of Research.gov:
  • a copy of the written request to the relevant Tribal Nation to carry out any proposed activity/activities that may require prior approval from them
  • written confirmation from the Tribal Nation(s) that review and approval is not required
  • a copy of relevant Tribal Nation approval

This notice provides the research and research training community an overview of application and peer review changes impacting grant applications submitted for due dates on or after January 25, 2025, including:

• Simplified Review Framework for Most Research Project Grant Applications
• Revisions to the NIH Fellowship Application and Review Process
• Updates to Reference Letter Guidance
• Updates to NRSA Training Grant Applications
• Updated Application Forms (FORMS-I)
• Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support

Although each of these initiatives has specific goals, they are all meant to simplify, clarify, and/or promote greater fairness towards a level playing field for applicants throughout the application and review processes.